What Is Your Favorite Bottle for Breastfed Baby?

I used Dr. Brown nipples with Evenflo glass bottles for my breastfed daughter and they were great! She rarely had bottles and took to these very nicely. I found it to be the most inexpensive ($5.99 for 3 Evenflo 8 oz glass bottles on Amazon.com - good deal!) , BPA free, breastfeeding friendly way to go.

We use the Playtex Nurser (the one with the drop in liners) on the rare occasion our now 5 month old takes a bottle. We've never had a problem with him taking it.

My DD had to have a bottle a couple times a week between about 3-6 months before I was staying home full time and the only one that she would drink from (and even that was only an ounce or two!) was the Gerber Nuk. I think the wider base around the nipple seems more similar to a real nipple for them. I'm not sure if they are BPA free though. I nannied a breastfed baby who really like the Borne Free bottles (not sure if I am spelling that right). I would recommend either one, but I say let daddy take care of the older boys and you focus on the baby! haha, I suppose it can't always work like that. Good luck with everything!

We used the playtex nurser and had no problems with it.

I excusively breastfeed and the bottle I use is Playtex Ventaire Advanced Wide bottle. My baby seems to do just fine with this bottle. I breastfed all my kids and used this same kind of bottle. I think the NUK bottles would be fine also because my baby does take a NUK pacifier. Hopefully this helps. Congratulations on your soon to be new addition.

Hi Stacy!

We have been useing the Gerber Nuk bottles for our daughter for almost a year. I breastfeed and/or pumped the 1st 9 months and when she took a bottle this is the one that really worked well. They have an air hole on top that you can hear the air coming out of. She never had gas or spit up issues while using these. We used the Platex natural aire ones with our first daughter and we really liked them, but they were a much bigger pain to clean (more parts). The Nuk bottles are a bottle, nipple, and ring. We LOVED them! She had no problem switching back and forth. They are shaped the same as the nuk pacifier so that is easy back and forth too (if you plan to use one). Good luck in bottle searching!

You might check the Avent ones again, because I think they may have some BPA-free ones now. That could be the reason for the price hike? We had really good luck with Avent.

S.,

I exclusively breastfed my little guy until I went back to work. Then I had the same challenge you are in-- which bottle to get. I ended up getting the Soothie bottle. He has that for his paci and it seemed to be the only that he'd really like. My sister-in-law watches him and she got him to use the Doctor Brown bottles too.

Good luck!

Our daughter would only accept the playtex nursers (with the drop in liners) if Mom wasn't on duty.

First, did you know you can take your old bottles (the BPA ones) and take them to Babies R Us and turn them in for new BPA Free bottles? You don't need a receipt or have to have bought them there. They will give you money for your old bottles that can ONLY be used on new bottles. So if you are turning in old avent ones, you might get 1/2 as many new ones, but hey, you don't have to pay for them.

We went from avent with #1 to playtex drop ins with #2. I wanted to be able to pump, freeze, and serve in 1 product. And I didn't want a ton of bottles in my freezer. What I love is that I only have 2 or 3 bottles now. I have used a couple others with him (avent and medela) and he doesn't seem to care what the nipple is like.

Good luck!

Hello, my son is now 6 yrs. old and I breastfed him until he was 10 mo old. He learned to walk and couldn't "take me with him" so he started to like his bottle more. I don't remember the brand but I used the bottles that I could put my bag of milk in. I would pump, put my milk in the bag, and drop that into the bottle. It was very easy and I never had to worry about if the inside of my bottle was clean as it was open. Good Luck and good for you for wanting to breastfeed!

Hey S.! My daughter is six months old and has been breastfeed and when I am at work my husband bottle feeds her> I have tried alot of different bottles and found that she likes the Gerber ones. Not the Nuk ones. I have found that the Nuk bottles leak. She likes the ones that are about four dollars for three. It all depends on your baby! Good luck and congrats!

We use the Playtex drop-ins and love them. I'm not constantly washing bottles! My son is breastfed and he goes easily between the breast and this bottle. There are store brand drop ins that are inexpensive and it is easy to warm the bottle using a warm water bath.

Love your boys' names!

I used Playtex Nurser/ Drop-ins with both. Nursed my daughter until almost 14 months. We tried every bottle with her...and I mean every bottle. We started trying the bottle way too late with her...around 7 months and she didn't start taking one until 10 months! With my son, we tried the Breastflow (by First Years, I think) it was kind of hard to use and has too many parts to wash. He takes the Playex one fine and I am still nursing him.

Good luck!

I too used the avent bottles with my last baby because they went with my pump. This time around I have a new pump, so went with the nuk bottle since it is the same as the pacifier. My son is 10 weeks old and we tried a bottle yesterday for the first time and all was well. I'm guessing because he likes his pacifier so much. I'm not sure if it is BPA free or not.

I breastfed and used the Target brand of the avent bottles and my girls liked those. Good luck , and congratulations.

BreastFlow by First Years. It took a little while to get the hang of it, but my daughter (now 9 months) has had no problem switching between me and it. Blessings!

Mam Ultiventbottles are great - and BPA free - available at walmart.coma and Target.com

We used Avent with our daughter and I used it again with our son. Babies R Us had an exchange program where you could bring in your old Avent Bottles and trade them in for new BPA free ones, as long as you had all of the parts (rings, nipples and bottle- they didn't require the caps. I'm not sure if they still do that or not. I was able to trade all of mine out. I did pick up 2 Dr. Brown's bottles- which I like, but there are alot of pieces with them that I don't care for when it comes to cleaning and washing them up. Otherwise- let me know if you want the AVENT brand- we are done with the bottle stage and I am looking to sell mine- all of them have been cleaned, in good condition (only used with one child) and sterilized!

Hope this helps!